Grace Lee Boggs discussed the legacy of Rev. Martin Luther King with Vincent Harding, a close associate of King's. Originally posted in January 2010, we're bringing it back as we celebrate MLK's birthday 2011.

Call for Beloved Communities: "We are living in a time of great peril and possibility. In 1957, with the Montgomery bus boycott, we embarked on a journey that enlarged the soul of America. We found ..."

The new energies being unleashed by Barack
Obama hold great promise. But instead of being followers of a
charismatic leader, we must be the leaders we’ve been looking
for. And we don’t have to start from scratch. We can look to
Dr. King’s vision that he was creating at the height of his
awareness before he was taken from us.